Archimdrite Kirill (Pavlov)
Rating: 8|Votes: 2
This parable teaches us that, accepting faith, we must accompany it with good deeds, which can and must support our spiritual life. The foolish virgins, going out to meet the Bridegroom, did not prepare the oil of good deeds for their lamps. The wise stored up good deeds along with their lamps in order to meet the Bridegroom worthily. So too our life must be a preparation for meeting the Lord, and for the rest of our lives we must constantly work towards the acquisition and preservation of living faith and burning love of God, the Source of life, and love of one’s neighbors.
St. Ignatius (Brianchaninov)
Rating: 8,3|Votes: 16
Who shall roll the stone from the tomb for us? These words of the holy women have their own mysterious meaning. They are so edifying that love of neighbor and a desire for his spiritual benefit will not allow us to be silent about it. The tomb is our heart. The heart was once a temple, but it became a tomb. Christ enters it by means of the sacrament of Baptism, in order to dwell in us and work in us.
Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko)
Rating: 1|Votes: 1
Actually, in terms of reason, what these weak women wanted to do was not only impossible, but was just a mad risk. And yet they went anyway. How? Why? What powerful force was drawing them? This force was the Word of God expressed in the Law of Moses. And fulfilling what was for them a holy law, they bought perfumes and went to anoint Him. This required their conscience.
Vasily Pisarevsky
The data from recent polls in social networks is even more indicative. 67% of all users of the popular Russian social network VKontakte voted for burying him, as did 85% of the Facebook users who participated in the polls conducted on the RIA Novosti platforms. So how do people push forward an issue that seems to have reached a dead end but which troubles the obvious majority of Russian citizens regardless of political or religious convictions? This was the topic of the press conference.
В день Святой Пасхи начальник отделения по работе с верующими военнослужащими Черноморского флота (ЧФ) капитан 1 ранга запаса Михаил Мамаев доставил самолетом в Крым Благодатный огонь, сообщает Вестник военного и морского духовенства .
